The Pembrokian The Newsletter of Pembroke College Development Office. Summer 1998. Issue VIII
TELEPHONE CAMPAIGN RAISES 1360,000
The end of the Telephone Campaign marked the beginning of a huge data loading operation. As this reaches its conclusion we look back at what has been one of our most successful campaigns. Besides the huge financial gains for the College, the evidence of which follows, the campaign has enabled us to track down many members who seemed to have disappeared. We now have a more complete and, without doubt, more up to date record which it must be stressed is also used to keep you in touch with Pembroke.
We are delighted to announce that your support of this campaign has raised in excess of .£360,000 in pledges with a further 28% of members who were contacted promising an unspecified amount. We are more than hopeful of reaching a final amount of £600,000. Our thanks, of course, go to all of you who so generously donated. A special note of thanks must go to all those who worked on the campaign, most notably the lettersigners and the student callers themselves (pictured above)
Just a few facts... 2268 members were contacted, from the years 1923-1990. This is an especially high contact rate. The average pledge was £225 per person. 55 of these pledges were over £1000. The most successful/generous year was 1977 raising £33,817. The average gift was £1,025. Second was 1972 with £28,683. Third was 1960 reaching £25,166.
Pembroke News
Pembrokians Sir John Kerr ('60), Head of the Diplomatic Service and Philip Lader ('67), US Ambassador to the UK, were guests of honour at a banquet in Hall on Friday 6 March. More than 100 Fellows, members and major benefactors including, Michael Heseltine ('51) (pictured above, with Philip Lader), Dr Damon Wells ('61) and Dr Kenji Tanaka were in attendance along with representatives ofTEPCO and UTP.
A team of eleven members represented the College at the 2nd Inter-Collegiate Golf Match held this year at Frilford Heath in Oxfordshire. Many thanks to those who helped Pembroke achieve a very respectable 4th place, out of the 7 Colleges represented. The 1999 contest will be organised by Pembroke. John Barlow (`52), at the Development Office, is the man to contact should you be interested in playing. Full details of the contest will be circulated to old members in due course. tI
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The well-known artist Tom Phillips has recently completed work on the Master's portrait, which is to hang in the McGowin Library. It was officially unveiled on 16 March in Broadgates Hall. Our next issue will take a more in depth look at the portrait and its production. Photograph (left) shows Kathie Booth Stevens and Andrew Graham (`69) admiring the portrait.
A set of stained glass windows, originally from the Hall, has recently been discovered in the College wine cellars by SCR Steward Antonio Anguilar. The windows, which when laid out covered the floor of Broadgates Hall, were removed in 1960 to make way for new glass donated by Sir Robert Macintosh in memory of his first wife, Margaret, and the former Master, Dr Homes Dudden. (Picture left) Rr
A display of sports trophies and memorabilia donated by Sir Roger Bannister is now on permanent display in the McGowin Library. Members are more than welcome to view the display, simply contact the Deputy Librarian, Mrs Naomi van Loo, at the College. Fellow in Engineering, Dr Paul Smith, has been appointed Junior Proctor, starting in March 1999. A 'Pembroke Profile' of Paul will feature in the September issue.
Century 5 Campaign
Century 5 Campaign: a Change in Strategy
The Century 5 Campaign was launched in 1992 and has so far been successful in attracting gifts and pledges to the value of ÂŁ8 million. As part of this drive for financial support from members the College has run campaigns in 'the USA, Canada and Hong Kong. These, along with campaigns run in the UK, have provided us with four key centres for our fundraising activity. Along with attracting personal donations from our members much hard work has been done in seeking support from companies and trusts, including The Tanaka Foundation, BTP and Shimizu, to whom we are most grateful for their practical and financial assistance. Despite the huge success of our fundraising operations we discovered a need to expand our activities. This led us to launch, in March of this year, the Century 5 Telephone Campaign. The idea behind this was that
the telephone represented the most effective means of reaching a very large proportion of our members. The aim was to encourage as many as possible to give to the College, at an affordable level, to help us secure its future. We believe that we shall soon reach our initial goal of ÂŁ10 million. In 1992 this would have given us enough capital to feel some security and was indeed then our target. Sadly, the position is now different beyond recognition and we are in a situation similar to that at universities in North America. In future much of our campaign must be directed at providing Revenue, rather than Capital. Long-term giving is seen as the best way of providing the security the College needs. To this end the majority of our members are asked to consider donating to Pembroke by covenant, thus ensuring a regular income and budgetary control.
Giving more without giving more! I have been asked to remind you of a scheme you may be able to use to help you give more to charity without 'giving more'. What do I mean? Well, there is a so-called `Matching Gift' programme. Many employers will donate the same or similar amount to the charity as you donate. Check with your personnel/human
resources department — you may be pleasantly surprised to find that your company operates such a scheme. American firms seem particularly generous (giving to your old 'school' is extremely common in America). - that's what I mean by giving more without giving more. Chris Mack ('83). Edited
The North American Experience Fund Raising at Canadian Universities Arthur Kroeger. PPE1956, Chancellor Carleton University, Ottawa. Edited
The College has asked me supply a brief description of how fund raising programs work at Canadian Universities. Programs to raise funds from individuals and corporations have been a normal part of university operations in Canada for many years. They have however become more important recently as governments across the country have made successive cuts to their annual grants. Private giving cannot offset more than a fraction of these cuts, but it serves to mitigate their most severe effects. Typically, Canadian university fund raising campaigns cover five year periods, with an interval of perhaps two years from the end of one campaign to the beginning of the next. In between, universities encourage annual giving by their alumni. Carleton enjoys one of the highest levels of alumni support of any university in the country, with contributions being received from an average of 5,000 — 6,000 individuals each year. Our last campaign had a very large capital component, with much of the money being earmarked for various bricks and mortar projects.
In the current campaign, emphasis has shifted to inviting support for programs and projects such as our new College of the Humanities, which has attracted application from exceptional students across the country. Although Canadian universities have to compete for donations with hospitals, churches, and a rapidly growing number of other charities, they have generally held their own. There is also cause for encouragement in the fact that public support for such causes has held up well despite fluctuations in economic conditions. For the period 1995 to 1996, Statistics Canada recorded an 11% increase in charitable giving. Carleton is optimistic that it will reach its target of C$50 million well before the end the current five-year campaign.'
And Where it Goes To
Where the College's Money Comes From
EXPENDITURE
INCOME
Education Domestic
Fees Other 10%
Fees UK Government 37%
24% Student Charges 11% Conferences
33%
41%
16%
21% Maintenance
2% Miscellaneous
5% Mscellaneous
Endowment Income
More from North America
Pembroke (and Oxford) is not alone
Yale Law School
University of Warwick
In October 1997 Anthony T. Kronman, Dean of Yale Law School, wrote:
Comments from Michael Shattock OBE, MA (Oxon), Registrar.
`Five years ago, the Yale Law School began the first comprehensive capital campaign in its history. The primary purpose of the campaign was to finance the renovation of the Sterling Law Buildings, which desperately needed repair and modernization. We set ourselves the goal of raising $130 million.
`Over the past 15 years the Government has cut recurrent grant per student by around 45%. With little evidence that Government is able to reverse the funding situation the only way to maintain the quality of university education is for universities to generate funding from non-government sources.
During the campaign the Law School received 41 individual gifts of $1 million or more. Twenty-two classes made reunion gifts in excess of $1 million. Seventy-two percent of the Law School's 9,600 graduates contributed to the campaign, and over 1,500 served as fundraising volunteers.
Most universities are making serious attempts to earn new income by contract research, letting out their facilities to conferences, and running short courses, but one important area of funding is from contributions by their alumni. Alumni support, and not just in cash terms, is immensely significant for major US universities, whether public or private: alumni in the US recognise the importance of putting something back into their universities. In Britain, graduates have the additional incentive, because of the decline in funding, of trying to ensure that their successors have the same opportunities as they had themselves. British universities will inevitably see a decline in the quality of teaching, research and student facilities unless they can generate new sources of funding. It is for this reason that alumni support is so important.'
The key to this success is the depth of feeling that the graduates of every generation share for the School. The attachment that its graduates and friends feel for the School is not a product of nostalgia or mere camaraderie, though camaraderie is very strong among us. It is the consequence of a shared devotion to the intellectual and moral traditions of the Yale Law School, and of the shared belief that these traditions must endure, for the sake of the legal profession and the nation.'
Yale Law School with 9,600 alumni raises $130 million Pembroke with 5,000 alumni raises 10 million
Pembroke Ski Trip whose hard work pulled together over 35 members from freshers through to old Pembrokians for the price of a weeks hotelling in Bognor and set in place a legacy that will last for many years to come!
The Easter vacation of 1998 saw the inaugural trip of the newly founded Pembroke College Ski Club. Winding up through the Alps, we prised our eyes from the ninth consecutive episode of The Simpsons, to take in the unfurling vista. While most of the coach revelled in the first real sun of the last 6 months, a hard-core of us unflinchingly decided to protect our eyes and don our shades. Two hours later, we emerged from the ski centre, transformed from the bleary-eyed students of only hours previous. The skiers pored over maps, wondering which black to fall down first; whilst boarders had a sit down, and decided whether venturing onto the slopes as early as the first day was really worth it. Two hours later however, most, if not all returned to the centre, damper and happier, to recount the morning's skiing. The weather stayed at its most brilliant for the entire week we were in Les Trois Vallees. The idyllic days were not, however, without their casualties. A combination of extremely strong sunlight and mirror-like snow caught some of the Oxford men unawares and two particularly hapless individuals were reduced to wearing balaclavas for the week after mistaking after-sun for sunblock. Apart from this and one or two other minor mishaps, the trip was a resounding success. A huge thank you to Carina Bloom ('95) and Haitham Ghattas ('95)
Pembroke College Boat Club The Boat Club completes its training for Eights week with a successful weekend for both the Men's 1st and 2nd VIIIs at Bedford Amateur Regatta. Overall wins for both of them.
Eights Week The 1st VIII started third on the river with Magdalen and Oriel ahead. They bumped Magdalen on the first day with considerable ease and gave Oriel a run for their money, just six feet from overlap. Clearly we had the fastest boat on the river. The Women's Squad are going from strength to strength, the 1st VIII finishing an impressive fifth. This has been helped enormously by a generous anonymous donation leading to the purchase of a new Janousek racing shell Grace Darling, costing almost ÂŁ13,000.
A New Member of Staff... Gloria Mundy with recently-adopted College cat Molly
In line with tradition at many Oxbridge Colleges, Pembroke has 'acquired' a College cat. Molly, pictured here on the right with Gloria Mundy, took up residence on the main site during the Hilary term. Molly's title and exact role will become apparent following the College's employment review, a process which is currently under way as part of Pembroke's drive for modernisation!
Pembroke Profile Richard Young, Fellow in Law Dr Richard Young has recently been appointed a Fellow in Law and University Lecturer in Criminal Justice. He replaces Andrew Sanders who has moved to a Chair at the University of Bristol. Dr Young joins us having been Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar at the University of South Carolina in 1996. He was previously at the University of Birmingham as Lecturer in Law from 1991 and Senior Lecturer in Law from 1994. Dr Young, together with Dr Caroline Hoyle, a colleague from the Centre for Criminological Research, was recently awarded a research grant of ÂŁ124,000 by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The grant will fund a three year study (commencing in the Spring of 1998) of `restorative cautioning' by the Thames Valley Police service. Dr Young is pictured here in conversation with John Barlow (Bequest Officer) and Molly (College cat).
Pembroke in Canada from Arthur Kroeger ('56) Pembroke Canadian Appeal
USA Appeal - Update
A renovated room in Staircase 11, the Besse Building, showing how a room in Staircase 17 will look
`We opened the campaign with a letter on 9 December, and following the Christmas break, set about trying to make contact with all the 66 known Pembrokians by telephone. I am delighted to say that were we able to reach 54 old members. Invitations were issued to a series of dinners which were held in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa. At the dinners the presence of John Platt, who traveled north from a preaching commitment at Illinois Wesleyan University, proved to be an important factor, providing a personal link with the College. Two-thirds of those old members contacted reacted positively to the Canadian Appeal that yielded an average contribution of $1,000. The Canadian fund-raising campaign represents the first comprehensive attempt made by the College in Canada and what exists now is something of a network of Pembrokians in Canada, many of whom did not know each other before. Finally, I wish to recognize the substantial efforts made by the following Pembrokians whom I enlisted to help with the campaign Toronto
Andrea Geddes Poole ('80) John Unrau ('62) Vancouver Nicholas Hudson ('81) Graham Good ('61) Montreal Martin Leblanc ('88) 54 donations from 66 Pembrokians is the highest level of gift per person from any area. This is of course superb.
In an appeal to members in the USA, launched in early in 1997, substantial financial backing was sought for the renovation and refurbishment of Staircase 17 in the North Quad, a project costing $640,000. The following members in the USA are amongst those who sponsored the renovation of staircase 17: Robert Bannister ('65), Simon Blackburn ('69), Gautam Chakravartty ('62), Louis Claudio ('87), Douglas Cox ('80), Vanessa Elder ('87), Adam Fein ('87), Glen Fine ('79), Howard Flitman ('65), Daniel Freudenberger ('67), Adrian Gear ('58), Edgar Gentle ('77), Richard Gerberding ('77), Donald Gillis ('51), Paul Hasse ('76), James Hester ('47), Mark Hulbert ('77), Mark Joelson ('61), Robert Long ('80), William Lort ('48), Denis Lyons ('62), Lee Miller ('88), Matthew Miller ('73), John Morrissey ('80), David Roe ('62), Edwin Scheetz ('87), Carl Solberg ('36), Philip Stead ('35), Jackson Stromberg ('58), Susan Tonkin (79) Revan Tranter ('54), James Turner ('65), Peter Wheeler (65), Joseph Chubb, James Dyke, Estee Lauder Corporation. The College hopes to begin work on the project in July this year, with work to be completed before the start of the Michaelmas term, and thanks those above for their generous support. Some $500,000 is still needed.
Diary Dates
Please Read
Friday 4 September
Golf Friendly against St Catherine's at Towcester
Saturday 5 September
Pembroke Visit to Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
Saturday 19 September
Pembroke Visit to Chatsworth, Derbyshire*
Friday 25 September
Annual Pembroke Society Dinner, followed by
Saturday 26 September
The first Pembroke Activity Day
*A Great trip - come and joi n in if you live in the North (or the South!) IF YOU WISH TO TAKE PART IN ANY OF THE EVENTS LISTED ABOVE, PLEASE COMPLETE THE EVENTS ORDER FORM ACCOMPANYING THIS ISSUE OF THE PEMBROKIAN •
Tuesday 20 October
Blackstone Society Law Dinner at the Reform Club, London
Pembroke Regional Reception
Glasgow, Michaelmas Term Women's, Media and Norwich Hilary Term - to be arranged
Gaudy Dates
Pembroke in short
Saturday 9 January 1999 - years 1968 to 1972 Friday
25 June 1999 - years 1988 & 1989
All Pembrokians from these years will receive a Gaudy invitation in due course. (Enclosed in this issue is a list of 'missing' members from these years. If you are in contact with anyone on this list, please contact the Development Office, to enable us to send them an invitation.) Pembroke College Mountaineering Club was founded two years ago by Tom Bauer ('95) and now has an active membership of over 50. We run a trip every vacation to various parts of the country with activities including walking, scrambling and climbing. These are aimed at beginners to introduce members of College to outdoor sports that they have not previously had the opportunity to try. If any members are interested in coming on a trip, or would simply like some more information about the club, then we would be pleased to hear from you. Similarly if you have any ideas for new trips, or possible avenues for fund-raising then please get in touch. As we write the next trip is the three peaks of Yorkshire challenge (Pen-y-ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside in 12 hours), is on Sunday June 21. Any enquiries in writing to Andrew Levitt at Pembroke.
Century 5 Campaign. Just a reminder to all donors — if you wish your gift to remain anonymous, please remember to let the Development Office know. College Register. The last College register was produced in 1988, and there are plan to produce a 1998 version in the coming months. If you do not wish to be included in this, please let us know asap. Note — The register will contain names, matric. years and home addresses only. No telephone numbers or work details will be included. We are sorry to tell you that Victoria Wild ('92) Assistant Development Director and Alumni Relations Officer has left Pembroke to take up a new fund-raising position with St Paul's Cathedral. We wish her success in her new post and thank her for all her efforts for the College. And Finally...The Blackstone Society, City Group and North American Directories are on their way!
Christmas Card 1998 This will depict the altar of the Damon Wells Chapel. Price expected to be £7.50 per 10, including UK postage and packing. Order form will be in the next Pembrokian.
Edited, Layout, origination and some photography by James Bracey